ABSTRACT
This chapter is based on young people and the crisis in Anglophone Cameroon. It examines how young people in the Anglophone region of the country have challenged decades of socioeconomic and political marginalisation, a development which eventually resulted in their quest for an independent Southern Cameroon. The author argues that the involvement of youth in the Anglophone crisis is based on the identity dimension of social protest in the sense that they fight for the interests of their community. The escalation of the conflict has been the tipping point for a massive recruitment of youth into armed groups in the North-West and South-West regions of the country. Despite the involvement of Anglophone youth in the conflict in Cameroon as fighters, some youth are engaged in peacebuilding efforts to end the crisis. The chapter provides recommendations on what should be done by the government and its partners to address the crisis.
